NTCA Disputes Wheeler's Notion That It Can't Find 'Accord'
NTCA CEO Shirley Bloomfield objected to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s remarks at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing (see 1503180055) about the struggle to find “accord” among rate-of-return telcos. “It was too much to bear,” Bloomfield said in a Thursday blog…
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post. “NTCA has been working in close collaboration for the past three years with" several rural local exchange carrier (RLEC) stakeholders "to develop, file and discuss repeatedly with the commissioners and staff alike a carefully constructed, targeted proposal aimed at solving a fundamental policy problem that undermines broadband choice for millions of consumers. It’s the very data-only proposal referenced earlier in the hearing. And the record before the Commission reveals striking consensus among all RLECs with respect to the targeted update proposal that has been put forward by this industry.” Bloomfield and her colleagues sent a note to the FCC and Capitol Hill Thursday that “details the record of consensus on this course of action that has been established over the past three years,” she said.